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1918 Luxembourg Constitutional Assembly election
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Luxembourg |
| previous_election | 1915 |
| next_election | 1919 |
| election_date | 28 July 1918 (first round) |
| 4 August 1918 (second round) | |
| election_name | 1918 Luxembourg Constitutional Assembly election |
| seats_for_election | 53 seats in the Constitutional Assembly |
| majority_seats | 27 |
| party1 | Liberal League |
| percentage1 | 32.36 |
| seats1 | 10 |
| last_election1 | new |
| party2 | Socialist Party |
| percentage2 | 26.86 |
| seats2 | 12 |
| last_election2 | new |
| party3 | Party of the Right |
| leader3 | Émile Reuter |
| percentage3 | 21.20 |
| seats3 | 23 |
| last_election3 | 25 |
| party4 | IPP |
| percentage4 | 11.22 |
| seats4 | 5 |
| last_election4 | new |
| party5 | PNI |
| leader5 | Pierre Prüm |
| percentage5 | 1.51 |
| seats5 | 2 |
| last_election5 | new |
| party6 | Independents |
| leader6 | – |
| percentage6 | 6.84 |
| seats6 | 1 |
| last_election6 | 0 |
4 August 1918 (second round)
Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Luxembourg on 28 July and 4 August 1918. The Party of the Right emerged as the largest party, winning 23 of the 53 seats. The Assembly was tasked with revising the constitution to democratise the country's political structure. The amendments were promulgated on 15 May 1919, introducing proportional representation and the option of holding referendums.
Results
By canton
| Canton | Seats | Party | Candidate | First round | Second round | Votes | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capellen | 3 | Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jacques Schmitz | 1,219 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Nicolas Wirtgen | 1,152 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Edouard Hemmer | 1,132 | 1,193 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Pierre Dupong | 1,125 | 1,133 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Kirsch | 1,121 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jeitz | 1,037 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,305 | 2,349 | ||||||
| Electorate | 2,497 | 2,474 | ||||||
| Clervaux | 3 | Independent National Party (Luxembourg)}} | Independent National Party | Pierre Prüm | 1,249 | |||
| Independent National Party (Luxembourg)}} | Independent National Party | Théodore Boever | 1,149 | |||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | J.-P. Jérôme Thinnes | 821 | 742 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Hubert Loutsch | 791 | 495 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Théodore Arthur Bouvier | 746 | |||||
| Party of the Right | Kesseler | 542 | ||||||
| Turnout | 1,871 | 1,251 | ||||||
| Electorate | 2,074 | 2,056 | ||||||
| Diekirch | 4 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Antoine Hansen | 1,462 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Matthias Jungers | 1,350 | |||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Jean Gérard | 1,304 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Nicolas Kellen | 1,185 | 1,258 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Jean Pierre Schmit | 1,187 | 1,170 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Auguste Hein | 1,066 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Peter John | 757 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Nicolas Fressch | 720 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,478 | 2,452 | ||||||
| Electorate | 2,744 | 2,728 | ||||||
| Echternach | 2 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Matthias Huss | 988 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Lamoral de Villers | 828 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Salentiny | 595 | |||||
| Turnout | 1,418 | |||||||
| Electorate | 1,636 | |||||||
| Esch-sur-Alzette | 15 | Socialist Party | Joseph Thorn | 3,974 | ||||
| Socialist Party | Pierre Krier | 3,949 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | Émile Mark | 3,899 | ||||||
| Independent People's Party | Bernard Herschbach | 3,882 | ||||||
| Independent People's Party | Pierre Kappweiler | 3,861 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | René Blum | 3,817 | ||||||
| Independent People's Party | Théodore Noesen | 3,700 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | Adolphe Krieps | 3,393 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | Jean Schaack-Wirth | 3,291 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | Joseph Kieffer | 3,237 | 3,212 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Jacques Schaack | 3,266 | 3,181 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Edouard Leon | 2,925 | 3,014 | |||||
| Independent People's Party | Jean-Pierre Glesener | 3,255 | 2,806 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Jacques Thilmany | 2,895 | 2,657 | |||||
| Independent People's Party | Matthias Vinandy | 3,152 | 2,649 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Charles-Léon Metz | 2,286 | 2,531 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Aloyse Kayser | 2,589 | 2,520 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Albert Clemang | 2,341 | 2,298 | ||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Baron Charles Jacquinot | 2,299 | 2,262 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | François Theisen | 2,272 | 2,181 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Charles Krombach | 2,216 | 2,173 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Auguste Flesch | 2,153 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jacques Laux | 2,027 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Charles Hoffmann | 2,004 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Antoine Gilles | 1,987 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Jean-Pierre Bour | 1,967 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Edmond Müller | 1,963 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jean Witry | 1,443 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Pierre Deloos | 1,349 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Victor Wilhelm | 1,251 | |||||
| Turnout | 6,668 | 6,198 | ||||||
| Electorate | 8,452 | 8,589 | ||||||
| Grevenmacher | 3 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | François Altwies | 1,230 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Albert Dühr | 1,172 | |||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Joseph Bech | 1,095 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Auguste Keiffer | 1,085 | |||||
| Turnout | 2,091 | |||||||
| Electorate | 2,350 | |||||||
| Luxembourg-Ville | 4 | Socialist Party | Jean-Pierre Probst | 1,365 | ||||
| Socialist Party | Luc Housse | 1,341 | ||||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Robert Brasseur | 1,204 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Léandre Lacroix | 1,156 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Eugène Welter | 786 | ||||||
| Turnout | 1,988 | |||||||
| Electorate | 2,618 | |||||||
| Luxembourg-Campagne | 8 | Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Maurice Pescatore | 2,406 | |||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Gaston Diderich | 2,284 | 2,460 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Joseph Palgen | 2,183 | 2,431 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jacques Gallé | 2,108 | 2,414 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Paul Koch | 2,079 | 2,408 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Léon Naval | 1,876 | 2,161 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Nicolas Mackel | 2,042 | 2,154 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Nicolas Jacoby | 2,044 | 2,153 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Jean-Pierre Colling | 1,862 | 2,003 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Jean Thill | 1,799 | 1,936 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jean-Pierre Schiltz | 1,604 | 1,869 | ||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Pierre Entringer | 1,717 | 1,855 | ||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jean Nickels | 1,433 | 1,812 | ||||
| Socialist Party | Louis Emeringer | 1,163 | 1,164 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Jean-Pierre Rasquin | 1,204 | 1,099 | |||||
| Socialist Party | Henri Schreiber | 1,149 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | Michel Schettlé | 1,114 | ||||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Jean Schambourg | 796 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Joseph Kayser | 733 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Clerf | 508 | |||||
| Turnout | 4,777 | 4,782 | ||||||
| Electorate | 5,724 | 5,815 | ||||||
| Mersch | 2 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Alphonse Eichhorn | 971 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Jean-Pierre Ecker | 889 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Leibfried | 718 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Pescatore | 657 | |||||
| Turnout | 1,669 | |||||||
| Electorate | 1,789 | |||||||
| Redange | 3 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Eugène Hoffmann | Elected unopposed | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Nicolas Klein | ||||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Pierre Schiltz | ||||||
| Remich | 2 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Adolphe Klein | 1,145 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Auguste Thorn | 1,091 | |||||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Jules Kohn | 437 | |||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Théodore Flammang | 379 | |||||
| Turnout | 1,692 | |||||||
| Electorate | 1,915 | |||||||
| Vianden | 1 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Egide Petges | 216 | |||
| Liberal League (Luxembourg)}} | Liberal League | Sinner | 164 | |||||
| Turnout | 389 | |||||||
| Electorate | 407 | |||||||
| Wiltz | 3 | Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Nicolas Meyers | 1,172 | |||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Émile Reuter | 1,125 | |||||
| Party of the Right (Luxembourg)}}" | Party of the Right | Charles Buffet | 1,095 | |||||
| Independent (politician)}}" | Independent | Albert Meyer | 326 | |||||
| Turnout | 1,437 | |||||||
| Electorate | 1,872 | |||||||
| Source: Luxemburger Wort, Luxemburger Wort, Luxemburger Wort |
References
References
- [[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1234 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p1253
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